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applegrove

(118,441 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 09:55 PM Mar 2015

And we thought Ken Starr started his 'fishing trip' early during the Bill Clinton years. The

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Benghazi witch hunt has started 4 years before the 2016 election and now they are going back even further:

Clinton emails breathe new life into Benghazi panel

By MATTHEW DALY at AP

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/671c5269d6e44dac903dd960b8ab33f4/clinton-emails-breathe-new-life-benghazi-panel

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The photo that became an Internet meme — Hillary Rodham Clinton, wearing sunglasses, staring at her BlackBerry — troubles Republicans on the House committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, for what they say is an incomprehensible omission.

Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., wants to know why the panel has no emails from Oct. 18, 2011, the day the photo was taken as Clinton, then the secretary of state, was en route to Tripoli. In fact, the committee says it has no emails at all from Clinton's trip to Libya, which occurred just days before longtime Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi was killed.

Eleven months later, in September 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Gowdy said in an interview that it "strains credulity" to believe that while on a trip to Libya to discuss Libyan policy "there's not a single document that has been turned over to Congress."

The recent disclosure that Clinton, a likely Democratic candidate for president in 2016, relied on personal emails to conduct government business has breathed new life into the Benghazi panel's investigation, which had threatened to stall amid accusations of partisanship on both sides.




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applegrove

(118,441 posts)
1. Remember when Ken Starr apologized? During the time the War in Iraq was failing and George W. Bush
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 09:57 PM
Mar 2015

was president. One set of rules for the Republicans, one set for everybody else.

global1

(25,216 posts)
2. Help Me Here - Just What Exactly Are The Repugs Looking For On This Benghazi Thing?......
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 10:48 PM
Mar 2015

Really - what are they hoping to find - that Hillary called for the strike that killed these diplomats?

Is it just that they'll take any shred of anything - just to further damage her chances of winning in 2016. Is this all about bringing her poll numbers down?

applegrove

(118,441 posts)
3. What is to stop them from going after some rising star as soon as they get into congress? Oh wait
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
Mar 2015

they already did that to Obama at one of his first Congressional Black Caucus Weekends. He was hounded by beautiful black women that weekend and went home in tears he was so disgusted. No doubt the GOP paid out a shitload of money to call girls that night. My point is when does it end (I mean start) (I mean end)?

applegrove

(118,441 posts)
4. It is just a fishing trip. They now link the Benghazi investigation
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 03:20 AM
Mar 2015

to Hillary' emails. And surprise surprise they want emails going further back. They'll take any mild to non existent Hillary Clinton slip up. Even a perceived one will do. Remember Ken Starr started out with a unlucrative real estate deal when he went after Bill Clinton and kept at it for years.

 

B Calm

(28,762 posts)
6. They are looking for that one e-mail where Hillary tells the terrorists to attack the embassy.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:35 AM
Mar 2015

I know it's hilarious, but the brain dead republican voter buys in to this shit!

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
5. So now they can't just talk to the CIA? The group that spies on Congress and runs intelligence
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:13 AM
Mar 2015

missions. Probably the type in which HRC would be going somewhere dangerous. I guess I am right and Congress is a collective group of chickenshits. The CIA now just uses them as a recording device.

These problems are too hard, because evidently everyone uses 30 years old technology. I'm already cringing at the thought of how long Foxnews will get to milk this shit. They are the laziest people on the planet, next to congressional republicans.

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